Tuesday, November 11th

Today was a bit difficult for some students. Last week, when I was attending a conference, I left work for students to complete.  Now that we are going over the work and trying to use it for this week's activities, I see that some students didn't follow directions, produced sloppy work, or simply refused to complete it at all.  

Today, in both groups, students were at different points and I don't believe in slowing down the students who made the effort and followed directions.  Nor do we have the time to waste when we are expected to cover specific standards in each term.  Consequently, some students will have additional homework tonight.  The work that is missing or incomplete needs to be finished and brought to school on Wednesday.  Many students were able to use class time to complete much of the work so there shouldn't be too much left to do.  

We continued learning about the Trail of Tears and students watched a video about New Echota.  They completed another window paining and shared their answer with a partner. Then students used the information they gathered from the three different sources to create an outline.  Later this week they'll use the outline to construct a written response. 

Students also worked on analyzing character in Gathering Blue.  Students completed the character organizer last week compared evidence and completed peer reviews of each other's written responses.  Students who didn't do the work from last week worked on their organizers individually. 

We concluded our day with reading more in Gathering Blue.  

Lastly, three students were able to answer yesterday's secret question.  Hopefully the next time I post a question more students will be able to answer so I can give out more treats!